Quicken WillMaker
Quicken WillMaker & Trust is a comprehensive, DIY estate‑planning software that enables individuals and families to create legally binding wills, living trusts (individual or shared), durable powers of attorney, health‑care directives, transfer‑on‑death deeds, final arrangements letters, and caregiver/survivor guides. It features an intuitive, step‑by‑step interview format with embedded legal guidance, ensuring documents reflect the laws in your state. Users can choose between a desktop version or an online portal, and can update or revise plans at any time. A built‑in legal manual and state‑specific attorney-edited documents provide clarity and reassurance. It covers more than 35 essential estate planning forms, including promissory notes, authority delegations, and personal finance documents, and facilitates probate avoidance.
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Wealth.com
Wealth.com is a modern, advisor-led estate-planning platform designed for clients across the wealth spectrum, offering a full workflow from understanding a client’s estate to optimizing and managing it over time. The platform’s core capabilities include Ester AI, which quickly extracts and visualizes data from complex estate-planning documents, enabling advisors to create clear, client-ready summaries and charts; a Report Builder that delivers visual reports to support planning decisions; a Scenario Builder that lets advisors model, compare and optimize planning strategies such as tax outcomes or generational transfers; and Document Creation tools that generate professional, attorney-grade legal documents and diagrams in minutes. Additional features include dynamic flow-charts, secure file storage, family-tree mapping, action-item tracking, and integrations with 20+ financial and CRM platforms such as Salesforce, eMoney and Orion.
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Arken
Arken Legal Software is a cloud-based estate-planning platform designed to digitize and streamline the document-drafting process for wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and related documents. It uses an intuitive questionnaire to capture client data and immediately constructs consistent, branded output, including full commentary for clarity; built-in alerts help prevent errors, and dual-screen live drafting allows users to review and adapt documents in real time. Its product suite supports a wide range of instruments such as simple and complex wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs), severance of joint tenancy, expressions of wishes, advance decisions, and general powers of attorney, all generated in minutes with minimal manual re-keying. It centralizes client information, enforces precedent and branding standards, and integrates an “Intestacy Lead Generator” tool that educates clients on what happens if they die without a will, thereby helping generate new business.
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Vanilla
Vanilla is a comprehensive, AI‑powered estate planning platform designed for financial advisors, estate planners, and attorneys. It streamlines the full advisory workflow, from streamlined client intake with Estate Health Check, through collaborative onboarding and document abstraction, to dynamic estate plan creation, visualization, and scenario modeling. It generates on‑demand legal documents (like trusts, wills, power of attorney, healthcare directives) via a questionnaire or attorney-assisted workflow. It abstracts key data from uploaded documents and builds interactive estate diagrams, balance sheets, tax projections, beneficiary summaries, family trees, and waterfall visualizations. Advanced scenario planning tools, such as ILITs, SLATs, GRATs, and Generation‑Skipping Transfer Tax modeling, help users compare strategies over time.
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